Monthly Archives: December 2016
Trends in Server Compute 2017 – AMD Opportunities
We take a look at AMD opportunities in the server compute space for 2017 and what Zen / Naples as well as Radeon Instinct / ROCm may mean for the market
Trends in Server Compute 2017 – Qualcomm Centriq 2400
As part of our Trends in Server Compute 2017 series we look at the Qualcomm ARM entry, the Centriq 2400 to discuss its prospects in the new year
Trends in Server Compute 2017 – NVIDIA
Perhaps the company with the most momentum from 2016, NVIDIA is poised to have a huge 2017 given its strength in AI/ machine learning/ deep learning
Trends in Server Compute 2017 – Cavium and ThunderX2
Building on momentum from the 2016 ThunderX launch we highlight the exciting prospects of the ARM-based Cavium ThunderX2 in 2017
Trends in Server Compute for 2017
We cover some of the most exciting trends we are seeing in server compute for 2017 and have analysis for several vendors' upcoming opportunities
Trends in Storage for 2017
We jot down a few notes on storage trends we expect to see in 2017. Intel Optane, NVMe, SATA SSDs, hard drives and scale-out/ hyper-converged headline
Google Analytics Spam – Getting more sophisticated with language
We follow-up on our story earlier this year about referral spam with a new form of advertising to webmasters, Google Analytics Language spam
Intel Xeon Phi x200 Series (Knights Landing) and FreeBSD
We take the Intel - Supermicro Xeon Phi x200 series (Knights Landing) developer workstation through booting FreeBSD distributions to check compatibility
Creating a Proxmox VE VM Template to Speed Virtual Machine Deployment
We show how to create a Proxmox VE virtual machine template that one can use to greatly speed VM deployment across a Proxmox VE hyper-converged cluster
Building New DemoEval Lab Storage with FreeNAS
We show off a new lab storage built using FreeNAS to manage our ZFS storage platform. Check it out for ideas for your own build.
Latest Reviews
Lenovo System x3650 M5 Workhorse 2U Server Review
Our review of the Lenovo System x3650 M5 which is a flexible and fast workhorse 2U server that performed extremely well in our testing
Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family shown off with 3D XPoint
The future Intel Xeon Scalable Processor family is shown off with 3D XPoint DIMMs as a game-changer for SAP HANA in-memory analytics workloads
Lenovo System x3550 M5 Flexible 1U Server Review
We review the Lenovo x3500 M5 1U server platform. Lenovo makes this server perform well and easy to manage and service in the data center